How is cutting down a few trees an improvement project?
Ever since we first viewed this flat, there was this banner in the corner of the field proclaiming that an improvement project was coming our way. There will be fitness corner coming up. I guess the town council needed to feel that it was busy doing things with our money to improve our lives.
So yesterday, workmen put up hoardings all round the centre of the field, leaving just a little bit of green at either end. Luckily, we still have the remaining little bit of green visible from our window -- the green that attracted us to this flat in the first place.
But that wasn't all the green that we were losing, as I realised, when the hoarding was up and the buzz of chainsaws started. They were cutting the trees in the middle of the field!
Now, at least three leafy, shady trees are gone. Presumably with whimsical sculpture of a metallic dolphin fin coming out of the grass since it's hidden behind the hoarding where dreadful things can happen.
In their place will be three senior citizens' fitness corners and three exercise corners, says a notice on the side of the hoardings.
I really don't know how an inclined plane for sit-ups is an improvement over three leafy trees.
2 comments:
Why did they have to cut the trees down? Why couldn't they have built the fitness section in the bit of the park without trees?
...or put the situp benches under the trees. No imagination lah, some people. I remember when I was in the Block 138 Lrg 1 T Payoh flat (now gone with no trace) that they used to cut the rain tree branches to within an inch of their lives and the view from my bed was the long lanky bare arms of the poor trees. Leave alone already!
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